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Basenji
Cladogram of Parker et al, Basenji is the black line
Anders Bergström et al, Ancient Dog Thereby, the Stone Age dogs from the
Genomics, October 2020 Levant (Basenji, orange) have been in Africa
for about 7,000 years, whereas the
In the diagram by Anders Bergström and his ancestry of the dogs in Egypt and South
colleagues, we see very clearly that between Africa (chalkolithic from Iran, grey) only
the Basenji and the Sloughi is the Azawakh, appear in a modern population in Africa
which is located in the area of Mali, Burkina (Egypt, South Africa: Ridgeback). And this
Faso and Niger. The Sloughi stands as a link not coincidentally in the areas in Egypt and
to Europe and the Mediterranean breeds. in South Africa where the English
The Mediterranean breeds are represented dominated in the 19th and early 20th
here by the Galgo español, which we have century.
seen above.
